Roman Roads Map

Roman roads in Wales

A map of the 1,117 km of known Roman road in this UK nation, drawn solid, dashed or dotted by how certain the route is.

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Key
  • Certain Well documented, mapped to within about 50 to 200 m
  • Conjectured Known road, course less precisely documented
  • Hypothetical Route not pinned down, or existence uncertain
  • Secondary road Thinner line, any certainty

How accurate are these lines? Most Roman road routes on this map are approximate. The Itiner-e project, which supplies the data, classes most of them as Conjectured, so read a line as a best estimate of where the road ran rather than a surveyed route.

Roman roads in Wales at a glance

Wales has about 1,117 km of Roman road in the Itiner-e atlas, mapped as 101 segments. None of it is classed as certain: almost all of it is conjectured, so the line on the map is a best estimate of the course rather than a surveyed route. None of the roads here has a well-known name in the data, so the map shows unnamed Roman roads only. 38 Roman places (towns, forts, ports and stops) lie along the roads.

  • 1,117 kmof Roman road
  • 101segments
  • 0named roads
  • 38Roman places
How certainLength (km)Share
Certain00%
Conjectured1,10199%
Hypothetical16.11%

Certain: well documented, mapped to within about 50 to 200 m. Conjectured: known road, course less precisely documented. Hypothetical: route not pinned down, or existence uncertain.

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Roman places in Wales

38 Roman places lie on or beside the roads here. Names come from the Pleiades gazetteer.

  • Tomen y mur
  • Blestium
  • Moridunum
  • Caersws
  • Alabum
  • Isca Silurum
  • Caer Gai
  • Cefn-Brynich
  • Cicutio
  • Gobannio
  • Kanovium
  • Tamion?
  • Bremia
  • Cefn Caer
  • Nido
  • Segontium
  • Varis
  • Burrium
  • Venta
  • Castell Collen
  • Carmarthen
  • Great Bulmore
  • Bomio
  • Caer Llugwy
  • Caerau
  • Caerphilly Roman fort
  • Carrow Hill Roman fort
  • Clyro
  • Dynevor Park
  • Gelligaer
  • Gelligaer Roman Fort II
  • Lavobrinta’?
  • Llanfor
  • Llwyn-y-Brain
  • Pen-y-Gaer Roman fort
  • Pumsaint Roman Fort (ancient Louentinon?)
  • Three Cocks Roman fort
  • Wonastow

Towns near Roman roads in Wales

These are the larger towns in Wales that lie within 5 km of a Roman road line on the map (not counting the hypothetical lines). Being close to a Roman road does not make a town Roman, but it shows where the old routes still pass by today.

  • Cardiff
  • Newport
  • Buckley
  • Bridgend
  • Neath

Source

Road lines: Itiner-e (CC BY 4.0). Places: Pleiades (CC BY 3.0). Lengths are measured along the road lines inside the Wales boundary. See all data sources and licences.

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